"City, Laurel Canyon Boulevard ascends the Santa Monica Mountains, where it maintains a width of four lanes until the intersection of Mulholland Drive. The road climbs up Lookout Mountain before descending into West Hollywood, passing through Hollywood Boulevard. Laurel Canyon Blvd's southern terminus is at Sunset Boulevard, where it ends. Laurel Canyon Blvd and Coldwater Canyon Avenue to the west between the southern San Fernando Valley and West Hollywood are also popular alternate routes to the Hollywood Freeway (US 101) during rush hour. The Laurel Canyon Freeway was to have been a north-south freeway in Central Los Angeles and its"
"""None of us floozies was ""that"" nuts."" The same quote, with the word ""zonked"" in place of ""nuts,"" has also been attributed to actress-comedian [[Marion Davies]]. ""Sunset Boulevard"" had its official world premiere at [[Radio City Music Hall]] on August 10, 1950. After a seven-week run, ""[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]"" magazine reported the film had grossed ""around $1,020,000"", making it one of that theater's most successful pictures. ""Variety"" also noted that, while it was ""breaking records in major cities, it is doing below average in ... the sticks."" To promote the film, Gloria Swanson traveled by train throughout the United States, visiting"
"Nickelodeon on Sunset Nickelodeon on Sunset (also called Nick on Sunset), built by showman Earl Carroll in 1938 as the Earl Carroll Theatre, is a stage facility located at 6230 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. It housed the West Coast production of live-action original series produced for the Nickelodeon cable channel from 1997 until 2017. The theater will be preserved as part of a new development currently under construction, but a new operator has not yet been named. The Earl Carroll Theatre opened on December 26, 1938, with a lavish revue, “Broadway to Hollywood”, which featured sixty showgirls ascending 100"
"a 40-piece onstage orchestra and a relatively minimalist set, the production began performances at the Palace Theatre on 2 February 2017 before opening officially on 9 February for a limited run, with tickets on sale through 25 June 2017. The cast featured Michael Xavier as Joe Gillis, Siobhan Dillon as Betty Schaefer, and Fred Johanson as Max von Mayerling, all reprising their roles from the 2016 London ENO production. The 2017 Broadway revival was directed by Lonny Price. In 2004, the first regional production of ""Sunset Boulevard"" was staged in the round at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago for a"
"The sixth, and newest edition, ""Nunset Boulevard"", premiered in November 2009, at Minnesota's Chanhassen Dinner Theatres . The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been invited to sing at the Hollywood Bowl. They are thrilled at the prospect until they arrive and realize they're booked into the Hollywood Bowl-erama - a bowling alley with a cabaret lounge - and not the famed ""Bowl"" they’d anticipated. In trying to present their all new variety show, the sisters have to contend with announcements from the bowling alley public address system as well as the activity on the lanes. Someone gets wind of the"
"Sunset Esplanade The Sunset Esplanade is an outdoor shopping center located in the southeast part of Hillsboro, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1989, the center is along Tualatin Valley Highway (TV Highway) at Minter Bridge Road and includes about five anchor tenants and about thirty other tenants in a complex with about of space. Neighbors opposed the center when it was proposed, due to concerns over increased traffic and how it would blend with existing residential neighborhoods. After appeals to the Hillsboro City Council and state land use board, the $23 million project received approval almost two"
"Band, Bluesberry Jam, Bangor Flying Circus, Roxy Music, War (with Eric Burdon), Lonnie Mack, Baby, Stoneface, Grand Funk Railroad, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Tarantula, Albert Lee, Spencer Davis Group, Jimi Hendrix, The Young Bloods and many others. Thee Experience (night club) Thee Experience was a psychedelic nightclub in Hollywood, California, United States. It was located at 7551 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip. Thee Experience was located in Hollywood, California, on Sunset Boulevard, from the grand opening on March 14 through December 1969. It has been erroneously listed as located at 7751 Sunset Boulevard; however, the address is clearly visible on advertisements"
"television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, began operating in Hollywood. In December of that year, ""The Public Prosecutor"" became the first network television series to be filmed in Hollywood.Television stations KTLA and KCET, both on Sunset Boulevard, are the last broadcasters (television or radio) with Hollywood addresses, but KCET has since sold its studios on Sunset and plans to move to another location. KNBC moved in 1962 from the former NBC Radio City Studios at the northeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street to NBC Studios in Burbank. KTTV moved in 1996 from its former home at"
"33 cities in a few months. The publicity helped attract people to the cinemas, but in many provincial areas it was considered less than a hit. The film earned an estimated $2,350,000 at the U.S. box office in 1950. Review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports that 98% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 60 reviews with an average rating of 9.3/10, the critical consensus stating: ""Arguably the greatest movie about Hollywood, Billy Wilder's masterpiece ""Sunset Boulevard"" is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, black comedy, and character study."" ""Sunset Boulevard"" attracted a range of positive reviews from"
"opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 12 July 1993, and ran for 1,529 performances. In spite of the show's popularity and extensive run in London's West End, it lost money due to the sheer expense of the production. In 1994, ""Sunset Boulevard"" became a successful Broadway show, opening with the largest advance in Broadway history, and winning seven Tony Awards that year. Even so, by its closing in 1997, ""it had not recouped its reported $13 million investment."" From 1995-2000, Lloyd Webber wrote the Matters of Taste column in The Daily Telegraph where he reviewed restaurants and hotels,"
"its time as an adult club. Boulevard Theater (Miami) The Boulevard Theater is a former movie theater located at 7770 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, Florida. It is owned by theater and nightclub proprietor and former Broadway theater producer Leroy Griffith. The theater has variously served as a night club and adult movie theater. It is currently an adult entertainment club, Gold Rush Cabaret. The Boulevard's doors first opened on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 21, 1940. Hailed as ""the finest neighborhood theater in the South,"" the Boulevard featured modern amenities unique to the period, including a massive air conditioning system, acoustical"
"critically acclaimed performance sold-out run in London’s [[West End theatre|West End]], followed by a 12-week run at the [[Palace Theatre (New York City)|Palace Theater]] in New York from February 2, 2017 through to June 25, 2017. ""Sunset Boulevard"" is heavily referenced in "" [[The Disaster Artist|The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]]"" by [[Greg Sestero]] and [[Tom Bissell]]. Quotes from the film are used as [[epigram]]s to many chapters, for example chapter 11 quotes ""No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star."" Plot and themes of the film are directly"
"primary character in ""Sunset Boulevard"" as her ex-director, ex-husband, and current butler. In the 1960s, it was shown on television with the Swanson ending, along with a taped introduction and conclusion in which Swanson spoke about the history of the project. By 1985, Kino International had acquired the rights to the movie and restored two versions: one that uses still photos and subtitles in an attempt to wrap up the storyline, and the other the European ""suicide ending"" version. On March 29, 1928, at the bungalow of Mary Pickford at United Artists, Swanson, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge,"
"include Finola Hughes as Cole's ex-fiancée Helena, Christopher Darden as Les Gordon, John O'Hurley as the host of ""Wheel of Misfortune"", Kim Alexis as a hotel maid, Jack Wagner as a thief named Jacques Dumont, and Barbara Mandrell as Casey's ill mother Alex Mitchum. Sunset Beach (TV series) Sunset Beach is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. Although there is a town in California"
"5800 Sunset Boulevard were first built in 1919. In the early 1920s, the facilities were acquired by Warner Bros. and served as the company's executive offices and principal studios during the 1920s. In 1923, the Western Motion Picture Advertisers' Association held its ""WAMPAS Frolic"" at ""the new Warner Brothers' studio on Sunset Boulevard"" with ""a great aggregation of film luminaries present."" At the time, the studio was long and wide, ""making it the largest covered-over stage in the world."" The site has been recognized as a historic site in large part due to its having been the location where the"
"Hollywood Boulevard, forming the junction that is still reflected in the existing street configuration. The Los Angeles Pacific Company was one of the eight rail companies merged in 1911 to form the Pacific Electric Railway. Rail service ceased on the two lines in 1954 and 1953, respectively. Sunset Junction is the site of one of the first actions in the nation against police activity in gay bars, the Black Cat Tavern protest, which began on February 11, 1967, almost two and a half years before the more famous protest at the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village. The event"
"Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, and Jack Webb play supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by leading silent-film actors Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner, and Anna Q. Nilsson. Praised by many critics when first released, ""Sunset Boulevard"" was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including nominations in all four acting categories) and won three. Deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1989, ""Sunset Boulevard"" was included in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it"
"Crossroads of the World Crossroads of the World has been called America's first outdoor shopping mall. Located on Sunset Boulevard and Las Palmas in Los Angeles, the mall features a central building designed to resemble an ocean liner surrounded by a small village of cottage-style bungalows. It was designed by Robert V. Derrah and built in 1936. Once a busy shopping center, the Crossroads now hosts private offices, primarily for the entertainment industry. It has been used for location shooting in many films, including ""L.A. Confidential"", ""The Adventures of Ford Fairlane"", and ""Café Society"", in TV shows, including ""Dragnet"" and"
"Thee Experience (night club) Thee Experience was a psychedelic nightclub in Hollywood, California, United States. It was located at 7551 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip. Thee Experience was located in Hollywood, California, on Sunset Boulevard, from the grand opening on March 14 through December 1969. It has been erroneously listed as located at 7751 Sunset Boulevard; however, the address is clearly visible on advertisements as 7551 Sunset Blvd. Thee Experience was the brainstorm of owner and founder Marshall Brevetz, who later opened a night club of the same name in 1967 in Hollywood, Florida. The club, which stayed open"
"ArcLight Hollywood The ArcLight Hollywood is a 15-screen multiplex located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. All 15 screens feature stadium seating, and carry a THX certification for optimal sound and picture presentation. The building is located adjacent to the Cinerama Dome, which is now part of the ArcLight complex. The theater opened March 22, 2002 and is a subsidiary of The Decurion Corporation, which also owns Pacific Theatres. The ArcLight Hollywood was the first theatre in the ArcLight chain to open, and is considered to be the company's flagship. ArcLight Hollywood provides numerous amenities to its customers. Each"
"for independent productions. ColorVision itself went bankrupt in 1969. In July 1970, the site was purchased by Los Angeles public television station KCET for $800,000. In November 1971, KCET dedicated its renovated $3.2 million studio facilities. At the time, the studios were the largest in public television and were intended to be used as the West Coast production center for public television. In 1975, KCET announced plans to build a new $1.5 million brick administration building on the site. KCET has used the Sunset Boulevard studio facilities to create numerous productions, including Carl Sagan's acclaimed series """", Steve Allen's ""Meeting"
"York production of ""Sunset Boulevard"" to make her Broadway debut at the Minskoff Theatre on 12 September 1996, staying with the show until it closed on 22 March 1997. On the ""Sunset Boulevard"" set in Broadway, the staircase steps had to be raised six inches (15 cm) in order to accommodate Paige's short stature, or it would have been hard to see her behind the banister. Paige was welcomed to the Broadway stage with a long standing ovation from the audience, and received largely positive reviews for her New York performance as Norma Desmond: ""The lush sound and the sheer"
"a little boy to a blind, teen-aged girl, the script was quite faithful to its source material. William Holden and Nancy Olson also appeared in ""Sunset Boulevard"" the same year. Filming locations include: Union Station, Downtown Los Angeles, California. Also, it looks like it was filmed on Chicago's South Side El from 1892 to Indiana station, where the train is uncoupled to go on the Stockyards Branch, which ran until 1957. Normally, the branch ran as a shuttle. It terminated at Exchange station, which was the terminal after 1956. The staff at ""Variety"" gave actor William Holden a good review,"
"point of Sunset Boulevard is ""The Twilight Zone"" Tower of Terror, a thrill ride based on Rod Serling's ""The Twilight Zone"". Located nearby is Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, an indoor darkened roller coaster themed to the music of Aerosmith, with three inversions and a high-speed launch. Situated next to Rock n' Roller Coaster is Sunset Showcase, an indoor special events venue. Sunset Boulevard has two outdoor amphitheaters. The covered Theater of the Stars hosts ""Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage"", a stage show featuring highlights from the animated film. The larger open-air Hollywood Hills Amphitheater is the"
"proposed to Denisov to create a Russian scenic version of Billy Wilder's cult American movie Sunset Boulevard. The premiere of Victor Denisov's melodrama «Sunset Boulevard» took place at the Russian Theater of Estonia (Tallinn) in 1998. The part of the silent cinema star Norma Desmond was played by the Soviet and Ukrainian stage and film actress Ada Rogovtseva. The performance has toured in the Baltic Countries, Russia, Ukraine, Israel and USA. The craft of playwriting combined with academic education makes Denisov's translations of plays easily «speakable», not requiring a scenic adaptation. V. Denisov was the first in Russia to translate"
"Boulevard Theater (Miami) The Boulevard Theater is a former movie theater located at 7770 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, Florida. It is owned by theater and nightclub proprietor and former Broadway theater producer Leroy Griffith. The theater has variously served as a night club and adult movie theater. It is currently an adult entertainment club, Gold Rush Cabaret. The Boulevard's doors first opened on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 21, 1940. Hailed as ""the finest neighborhood theater in the South,"" the Boulevard featured modern amenities unique to the period, including a massive air conditioning system, acoustical walls, and neon lighting. The theater,"
"Cinerama Dome Pacific Theatres's Cinerama Dome is a movie theater located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Designed to present widescreen Cinerama films, it opened November 7, 1963. Today it continues as a leading first run theater. The original developer was Saul Pick. In February 1963, Cinerama Inc. unveiled a radically new design for theaters which would show its movies. They would be based on the geodesic dome developed by R. Buckminster Fuller, would cost half as much as conventional theaters of comparable size, and could be built in half the time. Cinerama's goal was to see at least"
"2017, the series premiered its first three episodes at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. On July 15, 2017, the series held its official west coast premiere at Outfest in Los Angeles, California where the entire series was screened as part of the film festival's centerpiece screening series. On June 26, 2018, the series held its second season premiere at The William Vale hotel in New York City, New York. On July 19, 2018, the west coast premiere of the second season is scheduled to be held during Outfest in Los Angeles, California. The first two episodes"
"my close-up"" scene from ""Sunset Boulevard""]] In 1989 the film was among the first group of 25 deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the [[Library of Congress]] and selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]]. ""Sunset Boulevard"" received 33 votes in the [[British Film Institute]]'s 2012 ""[[Sight & Sound]]"" polls, making it the 63rd greatest film of all time in the critics’ poll and 67th in the directors' poll. In a 2015 poll by [[BBC|BBC Culture]], film critics ranked ""Sunset Boulevard"" the 54th greatest American film of all time. [[American Film Institute]] included the film on these lists:"
"600 built worldwide within two years. The following April, Pacific Theatres Inc. announced plans to build the first theater based upon the design, and had begun razing existing buildings at the construction site. Located on Sunset near Vine Street, it would be the first new major motion picture theater in Hollywood in 33 years, and would be completed in time for the scheduled November 2 press premiere of ""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"". The design was proposed by French architect Pierre Cabrol, lead designer in the noted architectural firm of Welton Becket and Associates. Pierre Cabrol worked with"
"of the theater opened at 5919 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, offering up improv, sketch and stand-up comedy shows nightly with a 120-seat capacity. Soon after, ""Comedy Bang! Bang!"" (formerly Comedy Death-Ray), a Los Angeles alternative comedy show moved from its former home at the M Bar to join the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, appearing on Tuesday nights. In October 2014, UCB announced the opening of UCB Theatre Sunset located at 5419 Sunset Boulevard for November 1. The new venue plays home to Upright Citizens Brigade's training center, an 85-seat theatre, cafe/performance space called Inner Sanctum, video production offices, and even"
"Grass River Property, and the Comras Company for $110 million. The Shops at Sunset Place The Shops at Sunset Place is an outdoor shopping mall in South Miami, Florida at the intersection of South Dixie Highway (US 1) and Red Road (West 57th Avenue). The mall opened in 1999 and is owned by Federal Realty, Grass River Property, and Comras Company. The Shops at Sunset Place is serviced by the Miami Metrorail at the South Miami station. The station is located across the street from the shopping mall on the corner of Sunset Drive and US 1. The Shops at"
"Sunset Strip (film) Sunset Strip is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Adam Collis for 20th Century Fox. The story was written by Randall Jahnson, who previously examined the rock scene in his scripts for ""The Doors"" and ""Dudes"", and he and Russell DeGrazier adapted the story into a screenplay. The film takes place in 1972, during one 24-hour period on Los Angeles's famed Sunset Strip, where the lives of a group of young people are about to change forever. Anna Friel stars as Tammy Franklin, a clothing designer, and Nick Stahl plays Zach, a novice guitarist; Jared Leto"